Stephan Beal wrote: > Hi, all! > > Today i set up my first APT repository for hosting .deb-format packages, > mainly for [K]ubuntu and GnuSolaris (aka NexentaOS). i've added a script to > the fossil source tree, debian/makedeb.sh, which is a quick hack for > generating a .deb file for fossil. Additionally, i will periodically update > the "fossil-scm" package on my new APT repo: > > http://apt.s11n.net/ > > Instructions on how to add that repo to your APT repo list are at that page. > Once it's activated, you can install it with: > > ~> sudo apt-get install fossil-scm > > that only installs the fossil binary under /usr/bin. TODO: write a man page > and install that too, so the package can better conform to Debian packaging > guidelines (which request that all binaries come with a man or info page). > > If someone out there could generate Fossil .debs for non-i386 K/Ubuntu and > non-i386 GnuSolaris, i would be happy to host them (please use the package > name "fossil-scm"). Just send me a URL to the .deb and i'll get it imported.
FYI I registered a Launchpad team / PPA at https://launchpad.net/~fossil-scm Launchpad PPAs are an easy way to build for all Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distributions (like Trisquel). I hope to find time to work on a policy-compliant fossil package at some point, but if anyone else who may have time sooner wants to give it a go, just request access via the web interface and then ping me off-list and I'll give you access to the PPA. (Policy compliance is only needed for eventual inclusion in the .deb-based distributions themselves, not to upload to the PPA; so it would be fine to get the PPA to build off of the existing packaging.) Launchpad has good instructions on how to use PPAs; for another project I have some doc up at http://bcfg2.org/wiki/BuildingDebianPackages#LaunchpadPPA that may be useful to people new to the process. Cheers, -- Daniel JB Clark | Sys Admin, Free Software Foundation pobox.com/~dclark | http://www.fsf.org/about/staff#danny _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
